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50 Roubles Turkestan District
| Issuer | State Bank, Tashkent Branch (Turkestan District) |
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| Year | 1918 |
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| Currency | Rouble (1917-1924) |
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| Reverse description | A panoramic vignette of a Central Asian city skyline with minarets and low-rise buildings stretches across the centre of the note. The denomination inscription 'ПЯТЬДЕСЯТЪ РУБЛЕЙ' is printed in large Cyrillic letters below the cityscape, with a decorative arrangement of fruits and vegetables — including grapes, melons, and various produce — filling the lower foreground. A multi-line authorization text in Cyrillic occupies the upper portion of the note, above the central vignette. |
| Reverse lettering | ПЯТЬДЕСЯТЪ РУБЛЕЙ ПОДДѢЛКА ПРЕСЛѢДУЕТСЯ ЗАКОНОМЪ Выпущенъ по распоряженiю Совѣта Народныхъ Комиссаровъ Туркестанскаго края согласно постановленiя особаго совѣщанiя съ участiемъ Совѣта Народныхъ Комиссаровъ, представителей Казначейства, Финансоваго Государственнаго Контроля и Государственнаго Банка и кредитныхъ учрежденiй Ташкента. Подлежитъ обмѣну на Государственные кредитные билеты. |
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The Turkestan District notes of 1918 were produced under conditions of acute administrative chaos — the Tashkent Soviet had seized the branch from Tsarist control only months earlier, and the regional economy was hemorrhaging currency as supply lines from Moscow collapsed entirely. This 50 Rouble note was authorized by the local Soviet apparatus to address a shortage so severe that the Tashkent branch simply could not wait for central authorization.
The S-prefix in the Pick reference reflects its classification as a Soviet regional emergency issue, distinct from RSFSR central emissions. Turkestan's geographic isolation during the Civil War made these notes functionally irredeemable outside the region for extended periods.